Era Two: Colonization and Settlement (1585 - 1763)

John White’s Paintings of Virginia Indians, 1585

Richard Hakluyt, "Reasons for Colonization," 1585

Ralph Lane, The Colony at Roanoke, 1586

Sir Walter Raleigh

Instructions for the Virginia Colony, 1606

Chief Powhatan’s Address to Captain John Smith, 1609

Mayflower Compact, 1620

Captain John Smith, “The Generall Historie of Virginia,” 1624

European Images of Pocahontas

Seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1629

John Winthrop’s A Model of Christian Charity, 1630

Attack on Fort Mystic, 1637

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 1639

Maryland Toleration Act, 1649

Virginia Slave Laws of the 1660s

Anthony Ashley Cooper, "The Fundamental Orders of Carolina," 1669

Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676

William Penn, "Frame of Government of Pennsylvania," 1682

The Salem Witch Trial of Bridget Bishop, 1692

Cotton Mather, 1693

Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," 1741

Indentured Servant’s Contract, 1755

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database